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Commensal Microbiotica - Biological Frontier And Legal Challenge, Kenneth L. Sanders Md Jan 2013

Commensal Microbiotica - Biological Frontier And Legal Challenge, Kenneth L. Sanders Md

Kenneth L Sanders MD

Recent advances in bacteriology and medical science affirm that the commensal relationship between surface microbial flora and the human host is intricate and important. Legal theory has thus far lagged behind the impact of the medical discoveries.


New York Naivete - Trust Me, I'M A Doctor, Kenneth L. Sanders Md, Geoffrey B. Sanders Oct 2011

New York Naivete - Trust Me, I'M A Doctor, Kenneth L. Sanders Md, Geoffrey B. Sanders

Kenneth L Sanders MD

Under New York law, a defendant physician may submit a self-serving expiation of absence of negligence in lieu of an impartial, independent and impartial opinion of a third-party expert. This practice is iniquitous to a plaintiff who has suffered medical malpractice and who is required to pay for an independent physician’s affirmation that malpractice has taken place. Focusing attention upon the questionable origins of this principle may allow legal or legislative rectification.